Thomas v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
709 F.2d 48 · 1983
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably 55 Fair empl.prac.cas. 1675, 57 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 40,952 Julio M. Cruz v. Department of the Navy (1991), Synan v. Merit Systems Protection Board (1985)
16 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 2108 · 5 U.S.C. § 7701
Relies on Grasso v. Internal Revenue Service
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he MSPB has only that jurisdiction conferred on it by Congress.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Appellate jurisdiction generally. The Board has appellate jurisdiction over cases specified in the Act where there have been prior actions within an agency. This includes certain decisions of the Office of Personnel Management relating to retirement and insurance benefits. This appellate jurisdiction includes: (1) Removal or reduction-in-grade of competitive or preference eligible employees; (2) Denial of within-grade step increases; (3) Actions based upon removal, suspension for more than 14 days, reduction-in-grade or pay, or furlough for 30 days or less; (4) Certain actions relating to the Senior Executive Service; (5) Actions otherwise appealable to the Board involving an allegation of discrimination; (6) Determinations relating to disability retirement, health insurance and annuities; (7) Actions involving reinstatement of preference eligibles; and (8) Those actions for which jurisdiction may be properly granted by regulations of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.